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snooper2

(30,151 posts)
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 01:13 PM Aug 2013

VICE- Kings of Cannabis

Published on Aug 8, 2013

You might not know who Arjan Roskam is, but you've probably smoked his weed. Arjan's been breeding some of the most famous marijuana strains in the world—like White Widow, Super Silver Haze, and many others—for over 20 years.

In 1992 he opened his first coffee shop in Amsterdam and has since crafted his marijuana-breeding skills into a market-savvy empire known as Green House Seed Company, which rakes in millions of dollars a year.

He's won 38 Cannabis Cups and has dubbed himself the King of Cannabis.

VICE joins Arjan and his crew of strain hunters in Colombia to look for three of the country's rarest types of weed, strains that have remained genetically pure for decades. In grower's terms, these are called landraces. We trudge up mountains and crisscross military checkpoints in the country's still-violent south, and then head north to the breathtaking Caribbean coast. As the dominoes of criminalization fall throughout the world, Arjan is positioned to be at the forefront of the legitimate international seed trade.

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VICE- Kings of Cannabis (Original Post) snooper2 Aug 2013 OP
Kick, snooper2 Aug 2013 #1
Read Michael Pollan's "Botany of Desire" -- great section on weed mainer Aug 2013 #2
Thanks for posting, I will watch later. nt SalviaBlue Aug 2013 #3
Thanks. I hadn't heard of this documentary. It was interesting. n/t DisgustipatedinCA Aug 2013 #4

mainer

(12,022 posts)
2. Read Michael Pollan's "Botany of Desire" -- great section on weed
Fri Aug 9, 2013, 10:19 AM
Aug 2013

He talks about the search for better strains of pot, and how Amsterdam breeders came up with the best.

He also reviews the history of weed and what a ridiculous war we've waged on it.

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